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I believe that it is a reality that people die through the side affects of political hegemony. I used to be a Jehovah's Witness and am familiar with those outs
by observation 9y ago
I believe that it is a reality that people die through the side affects of political hegemony.
I used to be a Jehovah's Witness and am familiar with those outside the religion criticizing it because it frequently occurs that their children die due to the refusal of blood transfusions.
However I now think there is a similar type of ignorance which has stemmed out of politically correct thought.
I believe biracial children are more likely to die due to the side affects of ignoring racial topics in our society. Here is how: biracial children have a lower probability of organ donation matches, and a drastically lower probability of bone marrow matches.
I have never seen this discussed before but it seems self evident to me. In order for a Congolese-Belorussian (a real family I know) child to obtain a bone marrow match it must be sought out way in advance of the illness, if a match can be found at all that is.
Since few if any people are aware of the rarity of matches for biracial people it must mean a lot of them die, there just isn't enough time to source the match in time.
Of course there are failure modes for rightist thought also. Were biracial couples illegal I don't think that would be a step forward. Still the failures of our current order linger in my mind and I believe that a slightly more right wing policy with respect to biracial couples (activating searches for organ/marrow matches in advance) would save lives.
Some people here may suggest that this isn't right wing, it is merely common sense or logical. Sure, but as Sam Altman's blog post suggests, sometimes good ideas are quelled if they could potentially interfere with political heuristics.
- Houshalter 9y ago>biracial children have a lower probability of organ donation matches, and a drastically lower probability of bone marrow matches. Sure, but the vast majority of people will never need this in their lifetime. I doubt this alone would make a noticeable dent in life expectancy statistics. (Also we are within a few decades of being able to clone organs anyway.) On the other hand biracial people are believed to have stronger immune systems and potentially other characteristics ("heterosis").
- observation 9y agoI don't disagree with anything you've said, but my point remains. Some people are inadvertently dying because of a political consensus view. I think this occurs in every political system though. The only route out is to adopt some form of the scientific process combined with metapolitics, seasteading is a hypothetical example.